COMMON CORE STANDARDS ELA
Reading Standards for Informational Text: History/Social Studies and Science/Technical Subjects
Key Ideas and Details:
Anchor Standard One: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
History/ Social Studies
Science/Technical Subjects
Grade 6-8
1 .Cite specific textual evidence to
Grades 9-10
1. Cite specific textual evidence to
Grades 11-12
1. Cite specific textual evidence to
Grades 6-8
1. Cite specific textual evidence to
Grades 9-10
1. Cite specific textual evidence to
1. Cite specific textual evidence to
Grades 11-12
support analysis of primary and
support analysis of primary and
support analysis of primary and
support analysis of science and
support analysis of science and technical
support analysis of science and
secondary sources.
secondary sources, attending to such
secondary sources, connecting insights
technical texts.
texts, attending to the precise details of
technical texts, attending to important
features as the date and origin of the
gained from specific details to an
explanations or descriptions.
distinctions the author makes and to
information.
understanding of the text as a whole.
any gaps or inconsistencies in the
account.
Anchor Standard Two: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
2. Determine the central ideas or
2. Determine the central ideas or
2. Determine the central ideas or
2. Determine the central ideas or
2. Determine the central ideas or
2. Determine the central ideas or
information of a primary or secondary
information of a primary or secondary
information of a primary or secondary
conclusions of a text; provide an
conclusions of a text; trace the text’s
conclusions of a text; summarize
source; provide an accurate
source; provide an accurate summary
source; provide an accurate summary
accurate summary of the text distinct
explanation or depiction of a complex
complex concepts, processes, or
summary of the source distinct from prior
of how key events or ideas develop
that makes clear the relationships among
from prior knowledge or opinions.
process, phenomenon, or concept;
information presented in a text by
knowledge or opinions.
over the course of the text.
the key details and ideas
provide an accurate summary of the text.
paraphrasing them in simpler but still
accurate terms.
Anchor Standard Three: Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
3. Identify key steps in a text’s
3. Analyze in detail a series of events
3. Evaluate various explanations for
3. Follow precisely a multistep procedure
3. Follow precisely a complex multistep
3. Follow precisely a complex
description of a process related to
described in a text; determine whether
actions or events and determine which
when carrying out experiments, taking
procedure when carrying out
multistep procedure when carrying
history/social studies (e.g., how a bill
earlier events caused later ones or
explanation best accords with textual
measurements, or performing technical
experiments, taking measurements, or
out experiments, taking
becomes law, how interest rates are
simply preceded them.
evidence, acknowledging where the text
tasks.
performing technical tasks, attending to
measurements, or performing
special cases or exceptions defined in
technical tasks; analyze the specific
raised or lowered).
leaves matters uncertain.
Common Core Informational Text: History/Social Studies and Science/Technical Subjects
the text.
results based on explanations in the
text.
Craft and Structure:
Anchor Standard Four: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
History/ Social Studies
Science/Technical Subjects
Grades 6-8
4. Determine the meaning of words and
4. Determine the meaning of words and
Grades 9-10
4. Determine the meaning of words and
Grades 11-12
Grades 6-8
4. Determine the meaning of symbols,
4. Determine the meaning of symbols,
Grades 9-10
4. Determine the meaning of
phrases as they are used in a text,
phrases as they are used in a text,
phrases as they are used in a text,
key terms, and other domain-specific
key terms, and other domain-specific
symbols, key terms, and other
including vocabulary specific to domains
including vocabulary describing political,
including analyzing how an author uses
words and phrases as they are used in a
words and phrases as they are used in a
domain-specific words and phrases
related to history/social
social, or economic aspects of
and refines the meaning of a key term
specific scientific or technical context
specific scientific or technical context
as they are used in a specific
studies.
history/social studies.
over the course of a text (e.g., how
relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
relevant to grades 9–10 texts and topics.
scientific or technical context relevant
Madison defines faction in Federalist
Grades 11-12
to grades 11–12 texts and topics.
No. 10).
Anchor Standard Five: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
5. Describe how a text presents
5. Analyze how a text uses structure to
5. Analyze in detail how a complex
5. Analyze the structure an author uses
5. Analyze the structure of the
5. Analyze how the text structures
information (e.g., sequentially,
emphasize key points or advance an
primary source is structured, including
to organize a text, including how the
relationships among concepts in a text,
information or ideas into categories or
comparatively, causally).
explanation or analysis.
how key sentences, paragraphs, and
major sections contribute
including relationships among key terms
hierarchies, demonstrating
larger portions of the text contribute to
to the whole and to an understanding of
(e.g., force, friction, reaction force,
understanding of the information or
the whole.
the topic
energy).
ideas.
.
Anchor Standard Six: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of text.
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6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal
6. Compare the point of view of two or
6. Evaluate authors’ differing points of
6. Analyze the author’s purpose in
6. Analyze the author’s purpose in
6. Analyze the author’s purpose in
an author’s point of view or purpose
more authors for how they treat the
view on the same historical event or
providing an explanation, describing a
providing an explanation, describing a
providing an explanation, describing a
(e.g., loaded language, inclusion or
same or similar topics, including which
issue by assessing the authors’ claims,
procedure, or discussing an experiment
procedure, or discussing an experiment
procedure, or discussing an
avoidance of particular facts).
details they include and
reasoning, and evidence
in a text.
in a text, defining the question the author
experiment in a text, identifying
seeks to address.
important issues that remain
emphasize in their respective accounts
unresolved.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Anchor Standard Seven: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
History/ Social Studies
Grades 9-10
Science/Technical Subjects
Grades 6-8
7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in
7. Integrate quantitative or technical
7. Integrate and evaluate multiple
Grades 11-12
7. Integrate quantitative or technical
Grades 6-8
7. Translate quantitative or technical
7. Integrate and evaluate multiple
charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or
analysis (e.g., charts, research data)
sources of information presented in
information expressed in words in a text
information expressed in words in a text
sources of information presented in
maps) with other information in print and
with qualitative analysis in print or digital
diverse formats and media
with a version of that information
into visual form (e.g., a table or chart)
diverse formats and media (e.g.,
digital texts.
text.
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in
expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart,
and translate information expressed
quantitative data, video, multimedia)
words) in order to address a question or
diagram, model, graph, or table).
visually or mathematically (e.g., in an
in order to address a question or
equation) into words.
solve a problem.
solve a problem.
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12
Anchor Standard Eight: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
8. Distinguish among fact, opinion, and
8. Assess the extent to which the
8. Evaluate an author’s premises,
8. Distinguish among facts, reasoned
8. Assess the extent to which the
8. Evaluate the hypotheses, data,
reasoned judgment in a text.
reasoning and evidence in a text
claims, and evidence by corroborating or
judgment based on research findings,
reasoning and evidence in a text support
analysis, and conclusions in a science
support the author’s claims.
challenging them with other information.
and speculation in a text.
the author’s claim or a recommendation
or technical text, verifying the data
for solving a scientific or technical
when possible and corroborating or
problem.
challenging conclusions with other
sources of information.
Anchor Standard Nine: Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
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9. Analyze the relationship between a
9. Compare and contrast treatments of
9. Integrate information from diverse
9. Compare and contrast the information
9. Compare and contrast findings
9. Synthesize information from a
primary and secondary source on the
the same topic in several primary and
sources, both primary and secondary,
gained from experiments, simulations,
presented in a text to those from other
range of sources (e.g., texts,
same topic.
secondary sources.
into a coherent understanding of an idea
video, or multimedia sources with that
sources (including their own
experiments, simulations) into a
or event, noting discrepancies among
gained from reading a text on the same
experiments), noting when the findings
coherent understanding of a process,
sources
topic.
support or contradict previous
phenomenon, or concept, resolving
explanations or accounts.
conflicting information when possible.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
Anchor Standard Ten: Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
10. By the end of grade 8, read and
10. By the end of grade 10, read and
10. By the end of grade 12, read and
10. By the end of grade 8, read and
10. By the end of grade 10, read and
10. By the end of grade 12, read and
comprehend history/social studies texts
comprehend history/social studies texts in
comprehend history/social studies texts
comprehend science/technical texts in
comprehend science/technical texts in
comprehend science/ technical texts in the
in the grades 6–8 text complexity band
the grades 9–10 text complexity band
in the grades 11–CCR text complexity
the grades 6–8 text complexity band
the grades 9–10 text complexity band
grades 11–CCR text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
independently and proficiently.
band independently and proficiently.
independently and proficiently
independently and proficiently
independently and proficiently.
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